Quest 2 Cyber Monday Sale Offers $50 Credit & Discounted Game Bundles
We’re keeping an eye on the best Oculus Quest 2 Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2021 deals, don’t blink or you might miss the best Quest 2 sale of the year!
Black Friday 2021 Deal Roundup – VR Headsets & Games
The holiday shopping season is here and often brings with it some of the best deals you’ll find all year on VR. Here’s our concise roundup of Black Friday 2021 VR headset sales and VR game sales.
HTC Vive Headsets & Accessories Go on Sale for Black Friday
We’re keeping an eye on the best HTC Vive Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2021 deals, don’t blink or you might miss the best Vive sale this season!
Dent Reality Raises $3.4M to Bring AR Turn-by-turn Directions into Retail
Dent Reality, the UK-based augmented reality startup, announced it’s secured £2.5m (~$3.4m) in funding, something the company plans to use to further its efforts to bring phone-based AR navigation into the retail sector.
‘Resident Evil 4 VR’ is the Fastest-selling Quest Game to Date
Meta today announced that Resident Evil 4 VR is the fastest selling game on Quest to date. The game quickly became one of the most rated titles on Quest just a few weeks after launch.
Resolution Games Acquires Studio Behind ‘Carly and the Reaperman’ Quest Port
Resolution Games, a leading developer of XR content, has acquired Zero Index, the studio which helped bring Odd Raven Studios’ VR co-op game Carly and the Reaperman (2018) to the Quest platform earlier this year.
Niantic Raises $300M Investment at $9 Billion Valuation to build “real-world metaverse”
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon GO, today announced it has raised a $300 million Series D investment which values the company at $9 billion. Beyond its geo-location games, the company has been building out a world-scale framework which it believes will be critical for a future full of rich augmented reality.
Nine Tips & Tricks for New Quest 2 Owners
Oculus Quest 2 is one of the best headsets for first-time VR users, and it’s bringing plenty of new users into VR for the first time. Here’s nine tips worth knowing right out of the gate to improve your experience.
Oculus Quest is Now Meta Quest as New Branding Hits Official Website
It’s the beginning of the end for Oculus Quest and the start of the beginning for Meta Quest, as Meta (formerly Facebook) moves to erase the Oculus brand in order to bring its XR division more in line with its fresh brand identity.
Leading Hand-tracking Company Ultraleap Raises $82 Million Investment
Ultraleap, a leading company focused on hand-tracking interfaces, this week announced it has secured a £60 million (~$82 million) Series D investment, with the goal of expanding its hand-tracking and mid-air haptic tech in the XR space and beyond.
Qualcomm Backpedals on 10M Quest 2 Sales Figure, Calls It a ”third-party estimate”
Qualcomm held an investor event earlier this week where the company claimed that its partnership with Meta (formerly Facebook) had seen over 10 million Oculus Quest 2 units shipped since its launch in October 2020. Not so fast though: Qualcomm now says the 10 million unit figure was a third-party estimate and “wasn’t meant as an official disclosure of sales numbers by Meta or Qualcomm.”
‘Blaston’ Studio Announces Futuristic VR Sports Game ‘Ultimechs’, Trailer Here
Resolution Games, the studio behind Demeo, Blaston, and Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale, announced its next title coming to “major VR platforms” starting next year. Called Ultimechs, the game put you aboard a mech to play some sort of futuristic multiplayer sport.
‘Warhammer: Tempestfall’ Review – Swinging at Ghosts and Hitting Air
Warhammer: Age of Sigmar – Tempestfall is the latest and most ambitious title from Carbon Studio which cut its teeth building VR spellcasting game The Wizards. In Tempestfall, the studio attempts to bring melee into the mix, alongside a dark fantasy story set in the vast Warhammer universe, but ultimately falls well short of what it set out to achieve.
Vive Focus 3 is Getting WiFi 6E Support & More Improvements for VR Arcades
HTC launched Vive Focus 3 back in late June, a high-end VR standalone with a price tag to match its ambitions as a device meant for businesses. The company recently announced updates to the software experience that will bring a host of improvements, such as support for the new WiFi 6E standard, larger tracking areas, a shared map for easier playspace calibration, and more.
